Noun

• S: (n) humanitarianism, humanism (the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare)
• S: (n) humanism, secular humanism (the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural)
• S: (n) humanism (the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) cultural movement (a group of people working together to advance certain cultural goals)
• S: (n) movement, social movement, front (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals) "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
• S: (n) social group (people sharing some social relation)
• S: (n) group, grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form